This book is an excellent field guide for those looking at our plants in the South West (Noongar country) who are curious to know how useful they were to Aboriginal and other Australians. Vivienne Hansen speaks from an Aboriginal perspective and links in with the larger Australian community. This link ...
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Treasurer 2024-
Vice-President 2017-23
Councillor 2009-13, 2015-16
Hon. Secretary 2014
Nine members of KRMB plus Lou Scampoli from the Main Club attended the excursion on February 26 to the Coodanup foreshore and Creery Wetlands within the Peel-Harvey Estuary. These locations are part of the extensive Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar Site and are an important feeding area for migratory shorebirds that depart their ...
Read more →Eddie Dell was the first speaker at our initial meeting for 2017. He spoke about the birds on his Sawyers Valley property, where he has identified 38 species. He brought in a New Holland Honeyeater’s nest—a tiny one—from which two young birds had hatched and later flew off to a ...
Read more →Bob Goodale was the first presenter, showing a number of photographs that he had taken at Goodale Sanctuary over the summer. First up were photographs of Western Grey Kangaroos on the edge of the main lake. This was followed by a photo of a Swamp Harrier taking a drink on ...
Read more →Speaker David Knowles from ‘Spineless Wonders’ grabbed our attention immediately by questioning whether, as naturalists, we needed to recalibrate how we think about our local fauna. We spend a disproportionately large amount of time looking at mammals and birds, which only make up just over one percent of Western Australia’s ...
Read more →Faye Arcaro, photojournalist and enthusiastic advocate of organic horticulture, presented us with the first talk of the year, at our new venue. This was a well-attended meeting with as many visitors as members. There are more than 2000 native bee species in Australia and academic reference sources about them are ...
Read more →Advertisement Pilbara Reef and Ranges Expedition ✱ SPECIAL DISCOUNT APPLIES 15 Day Camping tour – Departs Perth 4 April 2017 Experience Ningaloo Reef, Abrolhos Islands & Karijini National Park. Join us as we explore the wildlife of the Western Australian coast including the Abrolhos Islands, Shark Bay and the Ningaloo ...
Read more →Living in a Biodiversity Hotspot With Professor Kingsley Dixon The rich diversity of species, patchwork-quilted across the WA landscape just requires a new way of looking at that landscape and then the richness begins to engage you…. Professor Kingsley Dixon was raised in the wilds of Morley when much of ...
Read more →A number of members have had difficulty with finding a renewal form for 2017 and for your convenience a standalone form is provided on the website for those who could not use the form that came in the December issue of the Naturalist News provided to members. If you joined ...
Read more →Your newsletter(PDF) is now available from the members page. However you will have to see your e-mail advice for the new password for this year. We are hoping to trial a new system to give you the news via your monthly email without having to download the pdf.
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